tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post6544684219579221515..comments2024-03-18T16:10:41.673-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: “Sniper Nation” and its gift to Libya that keeps on givingDeuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-22741387200189889932015-01-28T02:43:24.275-05:002015-01-28T02:43:24.275-05:00If you have a choice between eating, and 'doin...If you have a choice between eating, and 'doing philosophy', eat by all means.Bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-2865594736272717762015-01-28T01:32:12.901-05:002015-01-28T01:32:12.901-05:00Or, from bread basket to basket case.Or, from bread basket to basket case.Bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-21111378158577792992015-01-28T01:30:45.374-05:002015-01-28T01:30:45.374-05:00This is called 'Liberation'.This is called 'Liberation'.Bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-18696951584002025522015-01-28T01:29:15.769-05:002015-01-28T01:29:15.769-05:00Showing results for starving in zimbabwe
Search i...Showing results for starving in zimbabwe<br /><br />Search instead for Starvation in Zimbabwe<br />Search results<br /><br /> WFP Struggles to Avert Starvation in Zimbabwe<br /> www.voanews.com/content/reu-wfp-struggling-to-avert... Cached<br /> Jan 31, 2014 · HARARE— The U.N. World Food Program said it might have to scale back its efforts to ease food shortages in Zimbabwe as international funding for the ...<br /> Zimbabwe | WFP | United Nations World Food Programme...<br /> www.wfp.org/countries/zimbabwe Cached<br /> Zimbabwe Refugee Food Assistance Programme in 2015. Tongogara Refugee Camp– Some 550 km southeast of Zimbabwe’s capital, ... Starvation stalks Zimbabwe villagers.<br /> Starvation In Zimbabwe - Image Results<br /> In Zimbabwe, Survival Lies in Scavenging<br /> WFP Struggles to Avert Starvation in Zimbabwe<br /> Starving People In Africa Zimbabwe child - starving<br /> ... Harare. The food situation in his village is desperate. (Photo: VOA<br /> The Face Of Zimbabwe Today<br /> Millions facing starvation in Zimbabwe<br /> More Starvation In Zimbabwe images<br /> One Million Are Starving in Zimbabwe, UN Says<br /> www.christianpost.com › africa<br /> Nov 21, 2011 · At least 1 million people in Zimbabwe are facing starvation, according to the U.N. World Food Program (WFP). The southern African nation is in the midst of ...<br /> allAfrica.com: Zimbabwe: Starvation Strikes Zimbabwe's...<br /> allafrica.com/stories/201412101590.html<br /> "Whether in cities or remote areas, hunger in Zimbabwe is equally ravaging ordinary people and most of the donor community has for long directed food aid to the ...<br /> Starvation Strikes Zimbabwe’s Urban Dwellers | Inter...<br /> www.ipsnews.net/2014/12/starvation-strikes-zimbabwes... Cached<br /> Dec 09, 2014 · Faced with starvation, hordes of jobless Zimbabweans in towns and cities here have turned to vending on streets pavements to put food on their tables.<br /> 'Massive starvation' feared in Zimbabwe - World news -...<br /> www.nbcnews.com/.../us-zimbabwe-could-see-massive-starvation Cached<br /> HARARE, Zimbabwe — The U.S. ambassador to Zimbabwe on Friday warned of possible "massive starvation" there as police again detained opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai.Bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-84761678044301552952015-01-28T01:27:59.928-05:002015-01-28T01:27:59.928-05:00300 left.
Zimbabwe's white farmers face thre...300 left.<br /><br /><br />Zimbabwe's white farmers face threats of new evictions<br />Associated Press<br />By FARAI MUTSAKA 16 hours ago<br /><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /><br />HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Most of Zimbabwe's white farmers were stripped of their land in often violent evictions that started in 2000. Now the remaining white farmers are on edge because of threats of new evictions linked to the country's long-running political turmoil.<br /><br />Mandi Chimene, a newly appointed provincial governor for Manicaland province, said at a rally this past weekend that she had evicted white farmers from 12 farms in the Headlands district alone, claiming they were being protected by the former vice president's faction. Joice Mujuru was ousted from the ruling party congress in December after falling out of favor with the president and his wife.<br /><br />Another newly appointed governor, Joe Biggie Matiza of Mashonaland East province, said he will take similar action by the end of this month.<br /><br />However, human rights advocate and political analyst Gabriel Shumba said that linking the evictions to the Mujuru faction "is just political expediency by those seeking to evict them." Shumba said, "White farmers are caught up because they are in possession of an asset that is in demand."<br /><br />The Commercial Farmers Union, which represents mostly white farmers in Zimbabwe, has sought a meeting with the lands minister over the evictions, said spokesman Hendricks Olivier. "The eviction of both black and white farmers is not good for the sector," Olivier told The Associated Press. "We need a clear policy."<br /><br />Douglas Mombeshora, the lands minister, recently said black farmers can enter into joint venture with partners of other races. But vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa later delivered a conflicting message, warning of more evictions of white farmers. President Robert Mugabe has often spoken against joint farming partnerships between blacks and whites.<br /><br />There are fewer than 300 white farmers out of the original total of 4,500, according to the Commercial Farmers Union. The land eviction program that targeted white farmers starting in 2000 was defended by Mugabe as necessary to correct land imbalances dating from the era of white rule, though the upheaval was blamed for mismanagement of Zimbabwe's once rich agricultural economy.<br /><br />http://news.yahoo.com/zimbabwes-white-farmers-face-threats-evictions-133521942.htm<br /><br /><br />Bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-84605235171730651852015-01-28T01:14:47.510-05:002015-01-28T01:14:47.510-05:00Never let a Democratic woman anywhere near the rei...Never let a Democratic woman anywhere near the reins of power.Bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-53039354975242746542015-01-28T01:11:39.397-05:002015-01-28T01:11:39.397-05:00"my reasons would be that the UK and France w..."my reasons would be that the UK and France went to war with Libya because of the oil interests of BP and Total"<br /><br />That is at least a good solid geopolitical reason.<br /><br />The reasoning of our three women not so much.<br /><br />At any rate we weren't alone in the adventure.Bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-43896932676720195782015-01-28T00:53:03.694-05:002015-01-28T00:53:03.694-05:00.
It is irrelevant anyway.
Deuce said:
The Ob....<br /><br />It is irrelevant anyway. <br /><br />Deuce said:<br /><br /><i>The Obama Administration, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, FUKUS, the usual suspects and The Washington war establishment has a lot to account for in what they did to the people of Libya.</i><br /><br />You counter with, "He had to go," and then speculate on the reasons for for the war. I disagree with the reasons you offer. If I were speculating, my reasons would be that the UK and France went to war with Libya because of the oil interests of BP and Total and that the US went to war because Obama is easily swayed by the women in his administration, i.e. the three Valkyries, Clinton, Rice, and Powers; Clinton because she was trying to recover some face after here miserable performance in Egypt and Rice and Powers because they were caught up in the idea of the Arab Spring and spreading democracy across the ME no matter how many countries they had to burn in order to save them.<br /><br />However, no matter whether you are right or I am, it's not important. None of the reasons mentioned justifies the shit we have brought down on Libya, the country or its people.<br /><br />. Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-45140217248729492912015-01-28T00:28:00.602-05:002015-01-28T00:28:00.602-05:00The Wall Street Journal?
This story takes the read...The Wall Street Journal?<br />This story takes the reader from 2011 through 2013<br /><br /><a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323864604579067001901766512" rel="nofollow"><br /><b>Saudi, U.S., Iraq Step in to Plug Libya Oil Gap<br />Surge in Output Helps Cushion Blow, Avoids Need For Emergency Stock Release</b></a><br /><br /><i>Sept. 10, 2013 3:20 p.m. ET<br /><br />Saudi Arabia has been pumping oil at its highest level in decades to offset a global shortfall fueled by another hot spot besides Syria: Libya, where unrest has slashed output.<br /><br />A tumble in Libyan production to depths not seen since a civil war toppled the Gadhafi regime in 2011, combined with fears of a possible U.S.-led military strike against Syria, have sent oil prices sharply higher in recent weeks.<br /><br />But unlike two years ago—when plunging Libyan output triggered a release of emergency oil stockpiles by the world's biggest consumers—soaring Saudi Arabian, U.S. and Iraqi output is helping cushion the blow, according to the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, a group of some of the world's top oil producers.</i><br />http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323864604579067001901766512<br /><br />Then we move to the more recent news ...<br /><a href="http://www.vox.com/2014/11/28/7302827/oil-prices-opec" rel="nofollow">Oil prices keep plummeting</a><br /> November 28, 2014<br /><br /><i><b>Things changed again around September 2014. Many of those disruptions started easing. Libya's oil industry began pumping out lots of crude again. </b></i><br /><br />So to some extent you are correct, Legionnaire, the benefits of the war, to our allies, was not eternal.<br />Jack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-9083608380633187982015-01-28T00:19:10.060-05:002015-01-28T00:19:10.060-05:00.
You have been visiting too many conspiracy theo....<br /><br />You have been visiting too many conspiracy theory websites. old hoss.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-7035593538635538252015-01-28T00:14:57.185-05:002015-01-28T00:14:57.185-05:00.
What makes you think the Saudis get those sales....<br /><br />What makes you think the Saudis get those sales lost by Libya? What don't you get about a surplus on the world market?<br /><br />Power projection?<br /><br />Good lord.<br /><br />:o)<br /><br />Heavens, rat, what was Qaddafi going to do send a patrol boat up and down the Italian coast harrowing swimmers on the beaches?. Or maybe send one of his boys to collect on that I.O.U. from the French president? Qaddafi had no air force and a navy in name only.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-32178317337588888062015-01-28T00:10:39.594-05:002015-01-28T00:10:39.594-05:00Because those monies owed could have been part of ...Because those monies owed could have been part of the motivation to action, on the part of the French.<br />They have a history of perfidy with their past colonies, it is doubtful they would respect one of Italy's to any greater degree.<br />Jack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-88989415654244700872015-01-28T00:05:38.990-05:002015-01-28T00:05:38.990-05:00Look at the riots in Egypt, a couple dozen killed,...Look at the riots in Egypt, a couple dozen killed, there even after retired General al-Sisi won in an election, ""Fair & Square".<br /><br />Civil unrest, all across the Islamic Arc, is bubbling.<br />Which was the intent of both the neo-cons and Wahhabi. <br />The secular regimes have been and remain the ones that are under the most pressure. Saddam, Colonel Q and Assad.Jack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-80776234339937131602015-01-27T23:38:37.582-05:002015-01-27T23:38:37.582-05:00It assists the Saudi strategy, in that the Saudi g...It assists the Saudi strategy, in that the Saudi garner those sales lost to Libya , even at the lower dollar amounts.<br /><br />The excess in production, despite the presence of Daesh in Iraq, their export levels are reportedly at record levels, over 3 million barrels per day. Our allies are pumping, our long term enemies, not so much. <br /><br />There is no attempt of 'power projection' into Italy or France by Libya, today. <br />Libya is a shambles, countries usually are after civil wars where the authoritative government is deposed.Jack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-8668144690868229402015-01-27T23:22:53.931-05:002015-01-27T23:22:53.931-05:00.
The country with what I heard was the 'high....<br /><br /><i>The country with what I heard was the 'highest standard of living' has been pulverized.</i><br /><br />And to no one's advantage but the Islamists and other terrorists. There is certainly no advantage for the US.<br /><br /><i>The is no denying that the leader of Libya, Colonel Q, was not a friend of the US.</i><br /><br />We don't need friends. We need people willing to cooperate with us. Qaddafi was cooperating with us.<br /><br /><i>Pan Am Flight 103 (involved in the Lockerbie bombing) was directly attributable to his regime.</i><br /><br />And as a result of the US reaction, Qaddafi gave up his nuclear ambitions and became one of the US' main partners in the WOT in the region. If we conducted foreign policy on the basis of 30 year old grievances we would be conducting regime change in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Israel, Yemen, you name it.<br /><br /><i>He was about to negotitate basing rights for the Russian Navy and was going to accept Euros fr Libyan light oil.<br />He had to go.</i><br /><br />Geez, rat, get serious. The Russians were 'talking' negotiating for bases in half a dozen countries including at least one in the Western Hemisphere. To date, they are having problems holding on to the ones they had before Libya much less new ones. More importantly, who really gives a shit. After the USSR fell, half the Soviet fleet went into dry dock. They still don't have the money to modernize their fleet. Talk of a Russian blue water navy is more fantasy than fact. <br /><br /><i>What has replaced hm, no threat to US, Italy or France.</i><br /><br />Just as Qaddafi was no threat to the US, Italy, or France. <br /> <br />Are you arguing that the world is better off with Libya as it is now, a failed state and breeding ground for terrorists, than it was before the Libyan war?<br /><br /><i>Add in the reported personal debts that were owed to Colonel Q, by the President of France ...</i><br /><br />Why? Who gives a shit? <br /><br /><i>And how by disrupting oil production and shipments, upwards of 1/2 million barrels of oil are off the market.<br />Some what mitigating the economic damage to both our Saudi allies and US producers, during the oil price war.</i><br /><br />That doesn't make sense to me. Currently, there is a world surplus of 1.5 million barrels a day. Saudi Arabia is trying to take out new high cost production such as that in the US and Canada. Higher supply puts more pressure on these operations as prices drop. With or without Libya, it wouldn't change the Saudi strategy.<br /><br />.<br /><br /><br />Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-90349822588289026852015-01-27T23:00:06.997-05:002015-01-27T23:00:06.997-05:00Exactly right, Legionnaire.Exactly right, Legionnaire.Jack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-46301092660817889162015-01-27T22:26:14.800-05:002015-01-27T22:26:14.800-05:00An excellent article.
The amoral opportunism of ...An excellent article. <br /><br />The amoral opportunism of oligarchy flourishes with bully-boy militarism in the banishment of morality and human rights from the erstwhile democracy. They have built a technology of thought control and repression greater than any prior challenge of democracy, that would require centuries of cultural learning to control, but prevents the very debate that could do so, and doubles in one percent of that time. Unfortunately, the problem will not be solved by education.<br /><br />Economic force is now the equivalent of military force, and those who use it to control government make war upon the United States, the definition of Treason in our Constitution. Those who serve gold rather than humanity have no use for democracy or peace, have betrayed us all, and must be imprisoned indefinitely.<br /><br />Are there any Congress members, Americans and others that are fighting to close down the Military Industrial Complex or will Congress and Americans continue sitting on their ignorant fat asses until the military is cruising down the main street of your home town? FergusonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-23336461498260708532015-01-27T22:14:48.895-05:002015-01-27T22:14:48.895-05:00I am not being hyperbolic in saying that the US wo...I am not being hyperbolic in saying that the US would be safer closing the Pentagon and get better defense through the Command Structure.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-19195172281427418102015-01-27T22:12:06.468-05:002015-01-27T22:12:06.468-05:00The outrage continues
WASHINGTON — The Justice De...<b>The outrage continues</b><br /><br />WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has been building a national database to track in real time the movement of vehicles around the U.S., a secret domestic intelligence-gathering program that scans and stores hundreds of millions of records about motorists, according to current and former officials and government documents.<br /><br />The primary goal of the license-plate tracking program, run by the Drug Enforcement Administration, is to seize cars, cash and other assets to combat drug trafficking, according to one government document. But the database’s use has expanded to hunt for vehicles associated with numerous other potential crimes, from kidnappings to killings to rape suspects, say people familiar with the matter.<br /><br />Officials have publicly said that they track vehicles near the border with Mexico to help fight drug cartels. What hasn’t been previously disclosed is that the DEA has spent years working to expand the database “throughout the United States,’’ according to one email reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.<br /><br />Many state and local law-enforcement agencies are accessing the database for a variety of investigations, according to people familiar with the program, putting a wealth of information in the hands of local officials who can track vehicles in real time on major roadways.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-88202120913118730312015-01-27T22:03:11.853-05:002015-01-27T22:03:11.853-05:00I guess what he org chart is so big no mortal can ...I guess what he org chart is so big no mortal can get through it all?Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688752302081088907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-76584168482893233152015-01-27T21:42:05.665-05:002015-01-27T21:42:05.665-05:00.
After complaining about it for a dozen years or....<br /><br />After complaining about it for a dozen years or more it begins to wear. Talking about it only gives you a headache.<br /><br />Read an article within the last couple days that kind of encapsulates it all. As part of the sequestration process, the Pentagon agreed to percentage cuts across the board. However, the IG is unable to measure their progress, if there is any, because there is no baseline to measure from. Why?<br /><br />The Pentagon has no idea how many people are in the military. And it is only getting worse because of all the contractors they are using now.<br /><br />I'm sure the problem exists in most federal departments; especially, within the 'intelligence' (I always uncomfortable using that word in this context) agencies.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-90159008585294392702015-01-27T21:34:16.648-05:002015-01-27T21:34:16.648-05:00Add in the reported personal debts that were owed ...Add in the reported personal debts that were owed to Colonel Q, by the President of France ...<br /><br />And how by disrupting oil production and shipments, upwards of 1/2 million barrels of oil are off the market.<br />Some what mitigating the economic damage to both our Saudi allies and US producers, during the oil price war.Jack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-18907043640775841362015-01-27T21:30:14.354-05:002015-01-27T21:30:14.354-05:00.
You might want to have your eyes checked.
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....<br /><br />You might want to have your eyes checked.<br /><br />:o)<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-61430528411480205792015-01-27T21:22:41.497-05:002015-01-27T21:22:41.497-05:00{;-){;-)Jack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-12832704755574440522015-01-27T21:13:41.217-05:002015-01-27T21:13:41.217-05:00Just connecting the dots ...Just connecting the dots ...Jack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.com